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Naomi Wolf Quotes

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“A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Tagged: The Beauty Myth, Social Construct of Beauty, Political Sedatives, Female Obedience, Obsession and Agenda, Beauty Standards, Beauty Standards As Sedatives, Quote of the Moment
“Could it be then that women's famous slowness of arousal to men's, complex fantasy life, the lack of pleasure many experience in intercourse, is related to this cultural negation of sexual imagery that affirms the female point of view, the culture prohibition against seeing men's bodies as instruments of pleasure?”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Tagged: Male Gaze, The Male Gaze, Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Female Sexuality In The Male Gaze, Catering To Male Desire, Objectification of Women, Men As Subjects, Women As Objects, Pleasure, Inequity In Pleasure, Cultural Negation, What Gets Excluded From The Narrative
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feels very much like freedom.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Pleasure, Self-knowledge, Creativity, Prioritizing Female Pleasure, Female Desire, Liberation, Female Sexuality
“So it was not just that orgasm might heighten creativity in women; maybe creativity also heightened orgasm.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Orgasm, Female Pleasure, Creativity, Sex, Muse
“She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Tagged: The Male Gaze, Bodies In The Male Gaze, The Desire To Be Desired, Self-Validation, Female Beauty
“What it needed was a replacement shackle, a new material burden that would drain surplus energy and lower confidence, an ideology that would produce the women workers it needs, but only in the mold in which it wants them.”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Tagged: Women, feminism, Labor, Work, Career, beauty, skincare, the third shift
“Low female self-esteem may have a sexual value to some individual men, but it has a financial value to all of society.”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Tagged: Women, feminism, beauty, the third shift, The Beauty Myth, Liberation, Money
“That’s what explained vaginal versus clitoral orgasms? Neural wiring? Not culture, not upbringing, not patriarchy, not feminism, not Freud?”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Female Sexuality In The Male Gaze, Pleasure, What Gets Excluded From The Narrative, Female Orgasm, Neuroscience, humor, Freud, Patriarchy, Culture and Society, feminism
“Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain’s question: Is it safe for her?”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Pleasure, Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Female Arousal, Emotional Safety, Toxic Stress
“To be credible about being harassed, in any case, a woman must look harassable, which destroys her credibility.”
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Tagged: Women, feminism, beauty, the third shift, The Beauty Myth, Liberation, Harassment, Sexual Assault
“Many people don’t like being touched if they are angry, but women seem to have more trouble than men with arousal if they are upset.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Pleasure, Female Orgasm, Neuroscience, Pleasure and the Brain, Your Brain On Orgasm, Sexual/Love Transcendence, Emotional Safety, Toxic Stress, Sex, Gender Differences, arousal, Female Pleasure, Male Pleasure
“Gradually, I reexperienced the sense of deep emotional union, of postcoital creative euphoria, of joy with one’s self and with one’s lover, of confidence and volubility and the sense that all was well in some existential way, that I thought I had lost forever.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Female Sexuality In The Male Gaze, Pleasure, What Gets Excluded From The Narrative, Female Orgasm, Female Pleasure, Sex, Lovemaking
“The difference in our bodies’ responses may make male-female connection especially tricky in such moments: this one simple difference in female reaction to different ways of being spoken to is one enormously significant reason that so many sexual approaches from men to women in long-term relationships become derailed, to the great sorrow and frustration of both men and women.”
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated
Tagged: Female Desire, Female Sexuality, Pleasure, Female Orgasm, Neuroscience, Pleasure and the Brain, Your Brain On Orgasm, Biochemical High, Trance State, Sexual/Love Transcendence, Emotional Safety, Toxic Stress, Sex, Gender Differences
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